Janet Lee Brewer
Law Office of Janet L. Brewer
Janet L. Brewer is the principal of the Law Office of Janet L. Brewer, which has its headquarters in Los Altos, California. Janet serves clients throughout the Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
She is certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as an estate planning and probate specialist – one of fewer than 100 practicing in Santa Clara County and fewer than 1,100 practicing in California (out of over 250,000 lawyers statewide).
Janet has deep experience with complex estate planning situations. In her international estate planning practice, she helps non-resident aliens, visa holders, “green card” holders and other international families with planning for their US-based assets and with minimizing the impact of US estate and gift taxes on international assets. In her high-net-worth estate planning practice, she assists affluent clients with planning in an effort to minimize estate taxation.
Janet is a member of STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), an invitation-only group of estate planning professionals who have special expertise in the area of international estate planning. She frequently prepares estate plans for foreign nationals who own property or live in the United States and for US citizens who own property abroad.
Highly regarded by her fellow professionals, she has achieved a “Superb” peer-review rating through Avvo and an AV Distinguished* peer-review rating through Martindale-Hubbell.
Janet has been a member of the governing body for California’s 250,000+ lawyers, known as the California State Bar Board of Trustees. Prior to her term as a California State Bar Board of Trustees, the California State Bar Board of Trustees had selected her to serve a 3-year term as a member of the Executive Committee of the Solo and Small Firms Section of the State Bar. Janet has taught estate planning for the UC Santa Cruz Certified Financial Planner certificate program.
- Golden Gate University
- LL.M. (2010) | Taxation Law
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- Courses include Multinational Estate Planning, Probate Procedures & Litigation, Advanced Estate Planning
- Honors: LLM with Honors
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- Golden Gate University
- M.B.A. (1982)
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- University of Denver Law School
- J.D. (1975) | President - International Legal Society; International Law Review.
- Honors: Coulter Scholarship recipient.
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- University of Wisconsin
- B.A. (1971) | Major: Spanish, Minor: English.
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- Owner
- Law Office of Janet L. Brewer
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- General Counsel
- Telebit Corporation
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- General Counsel
- Corvus Systems
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- General Counsel
- Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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- Staff Attorney
- Hewlett-Packard Company
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- Estate Planning in Santa Clara
- California State Bar
- Certified Specialist - Estate Planning & Probate Law
- Cal. State Bar Board of Legal Specialization
- Since 2007, Northern California Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- Since 2007, Janet has been a member of Super Lawyers' list of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
- International Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP)
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- Activities: International Estate Planning Organization focused on the sophisticated and highly specialized gift tax and estate planning strategies needed to effectively plan for non-US citizens, permanent residents (green card holders), and non-resident aliens who own property in the United States
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- California State Bar Solo and Small Firm Section
- Member, Executive Committee
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- California State Bar Solo and Small Firm Section
- Member, Executive Committee
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- Activities: Three (3) year appointment by the State Bar of California beginning in September 2009
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- California State Bar # 74181
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- California
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- Colorado
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- Credit Cards Accepted
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
In most cases, we offer flat-rate billing so you know exactly what to expect. Rather than worrying about unexpected fees, you can focus on your estate plan. As soon as we have all the necessary information, we will determine the fee, which won’t change unless you change the estate plan.
- Estate Planning
- Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Tax Law
- Estate Tax Planning
- Probate
- Probate Administration
- Estate and Trust Administration
- Estate Tax Return Preparation
- Probate and Probate Administration
- Wills and Trusts
- Spanish: Spoken, Written